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| 1868 | A Catholic Mission was set up in Bagamoyo. Source: H Goergen "The History of Health Care in Tanzania", exhibition catalogue [no date]. (NB The ILA Global Project on the History of Leprosy is not responsible for the content of external websites.) |
| 1890 | The first recorded leprosy village in the country was established near the Catholic Mission in Bagamoyo, run by Catholic Missionaries and supported with funds from the Indian trader, Sewa Haji. This development has been dated variously to 1890 and 1897.
(For the former date see H Goergen "The History of Health Care in Tanzania". For the latter, see HW Wheate, "Leprosy Control in Tanzania", Lepr Rev, 40 (1969):217-222; on p. 217. |
| 1908 | The hospital had the capacity to receive around 100 lepers. Source: H Goergen "The History of Health Care in Tanzania". |
| 1912 | Otto Peiper, a German army medical officer, describes this leprosy village in "Die Bekämpfung der Lepra in Deutsch-Ostafrika", LEPRA, 14: 192. |